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The AWS Developers Podcast

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225 episodes

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  1. In-flight experience: a cloud inside the plane

    · 1 h 11 min · Episode 225

    In-flight entertainment now runs on a cloud. Not the one on the ground, a cloud inside the aircraft. A 300-watt onboard data center running Kubernetes, managed databases and observability, built to survive vibration,…

  2. Is AWS Lambda still serverless?

    · 1 h 12 min · Episode 224

    Is AWS Lambda still serverless? With Managed Instances, MicroVMs, and Durable Functions, Lambda can now run workloads it was never designed for. AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui explains what changed, what you give up, and…

  3. Jev: is it just a smarter if-statement?

    · 50 min · Episode 223

    Is Jev just a smarter if-statement? That's the question everyone's asking about TypeSafe AI's new "System One" model. In this episode, we dig into what Jev actually is: a model that makes fast, typed decisions your…

  4. Building Software Will Never Be The Same

    · 51 min · Episode 222

    Most developers say AI makes them more productive. Most companies say their teams aren't shipping faster. What's going on? In this special solo episode, Romain unpacks the data behind the "acceleration whiplash," walks…

  5. Kiro, Strands Agents & MCP: 10 Updates You Missed

    · 1 h 03 min · Episode 221

    The MCP specification just went stateless. Clare Liguori — Senior Principal Engineer at AWS and core MCP maintainer — explains what changed, why it matters, and what it unlocks for agent developers building with…

  6. Harness engineering: are you controlling your AI agents?

    · 51 min · Episode 220

    What happens when you strip the model from an agent? Everything left is the harness — and engineering that harness is the new discipline every AI builder needs to master. In this episode, Romain sits down with Mike…

  7. How Prime Video's engineers manage agents, not code

    · 1 h 11 min · Episode 219

    Prime Video serves over 300 million monthly customers across 240+ territories and 8,000+ device types. Lilia Abaibourova leads the AI-native transformation there. Prime Video started early, adopting CodeWhisperer as…

  8. Your AI platform isn't mature — here's what is

    · 53 min · Episode 218

    I keep hearing 'we're building an AI platform' from enterprises. Most are stitching together demos. Thomson Reuters has been doing AI for 30 years. I sat down with Laura Skylaki (VP AI Engineering, Thomson Reuters) at…

  9. The Delivery Gap: Why 96% of Your AI Code Is Waste

    · 1 h 08 min · Episode 217

    Brenn reached out via LinkedIn to share his experience with AI-driven software development and his new book, The Delivery Gap. Romain read a copy during a business trip and found it deeply aligned with how he guides…

  10. What are MCP apps and why should you care?

    · 51 min · Episode 216

    Most MCP tools today return text. But what if your agent could render a chart, a form, or a full dashboard right inside the chat? That's what MCP apps do — and they're already live on ChatGPT, Claude, and Amazon Quick.…

  11. 5 Lessons Running AI Agents in Production

    · 56 min · Episode 215

    John Sexton and Aaron Tummon from Genesys join the show to share hard-won lessons from building and operating Cloud Copilot — an agentic AI layer serving 2 million users across 21+ AWS regions. Genesys powers customer…

  12. AWS DevOps Agent: Can Your Pipeline Keep Up with AI?

    · 46 min · Episode 214

    Tipu Qureshi — Senior Principal Engineer at AWS — joins the show fresh from the AWS Summit NYC 2026 announcements to break down how DevOps Agent is changing the way teams handle operations and release management. After…

  13. KiroGraph: How a Local Code Graph Saves 80% of Your AI Tokens

    · 1 h 07 min · Episode 213

    Davide de Sio built KiroGraph as a personal side project to stop his AI agent from burning through credits just searching files. It turned into a community-driven, open-source MCP server that gives Kiro (and other AI…

  14. Cutting Through the AI Developer Hype

    · 1 h 20 min · Episode 212

    An honest, no-filter conversation about where developers actually stand with AI today. Warren Parad — CTO at Authress, AWS Community Builder, and host of Adventures in DevOps — brings a contrarian 'LLM realist'…

  15. Why Your Agent Evaluations Will Fail You (and How to Fix Them Before Production)

    · 44 min · Episode 211

    Anthropic deprecated Sonnet 3.5. Some of Xelix's pipelines migrated smoothly. Others broke — and customers noticed within hours. What separated the two? Evaluation. Paul Solomon and James Price Farr have spent 5+ years…

  16. 5 Quality Gates That Let You Ship 250% Faster with AI Coding Agents

    · 1 h 02 min · Episode 210

    How do you give 120+ engineers AI coding agents — and NOT break production? Ryan Cormack, Principal Engineer at Motorway and AWS Community Builder (recognized as a Renaissance Developer by Werner Vogels), shares the…

  17. Dark Factories: Why Your AI Coding Setup Is Already Outdated

    · 49 min · Episode 209

    You're using Copilot. Maybe you've tried Cursor or Claude Code. But what if that's already the tail end of the AI wave? In this episode, Romain sits down with Christian Weichel, CTO and co-founder of Ona (formerly…

  18. LLM-as-a-Judge, Quotation Fidelity, and A/B Testing Models: AI Publishing at Scale

    · 50 min · Episode 208

    What happens when a data scientist builds a generative AI proof of concept — and it scales to 700,000 articles and 4 billion page views? Recorded live at AWS Summit London, Romain is joined by Lewis James, Senior Data…

  19. AI Agents, Friction, and the Future of Developer Experience

    · 51 min · Episode 207

    AI agents are transforming how we write, test, and ship software — but are they actually improving the developer experience? Recorded live at AWS Summit London, Romain is joined by Tomasz Ptak — AWS AI Hero and Senior…

  20. The Evolution of Microservices: Agents, Monoliths, and the Patterns That Never Die

    · 47 min · Episode 206

    Recorded live at AWS Summit London, Matheus Guimaraes — Senior Developer Advocate at AWS and microservices specialist with over 25 years in tech — joins Romain to explore how agentic AI is reshaping the way we think…

  21. How Can AI Agents Cut Support Resolution Time by 95%?

    · 52 min · Episode 205

    CyberArk's support team was drowning in logs. With 40+ products across SaaS and self-hosted environments, each generating logs in different formats, support engineers were spending days just preparing data before they…

  22. Spec-Driven Development and the AI Unified Process — with Simon Martinelli

    · 1 h 11 min · Episode 204

    Simon Martinelli is a Java Champion, Vaadin Champion, and Oracle ACE Pro with over three decades of experience building enterprise software. In this episode, he introduces the AI Unified Process (AIUP) — a methodology…

  23. Neurosymbolic AI: Combining GenAI with Mathematical Proof — with Danilo Poccia

    · 1 h 08 min · Episode 203

    What if you could combine the creative power of generative AI with the mathematical certainty of formal verification? In this episode, Danilo Poccia — Principal Developer Advocate at AWS — breaks down automated…

  24. Agent-Native Serverless Development with Shridhar Pandey

    · 47 min · Episode 202

    In this episode, we sit down with Shridhar Pandey, Principal Product Manager on AWS Serverless Compute, to explore how the serverless team is pioneering agent-native development. Shridhar walks us through a remarkable…

  25. The Hard Lessons of Cloud Migration: inDrive's Path from Monolith to Microservices

    · 1 h 14 min · Episode 201

    Join us for a fascinating conversation with Alexander 'Sasha' Lisachenko (Software Architect) and Artem Gab (Senior Engineering Manager) from inDrive, one of the global leaders in mobility operating in 48 countries and…

  26. Spring AI and AgentCore: Building Enterprise AI Agents in Java

    · 52 min · Episode 200

    It's a milestone — episode 200! And to mark the occasion, we're doing something we've never done before: hosting two guests at the same time. James Ward (Principal Developer Advocate at AWS) and Josh Long (Spring…

  27. AWS Hero Linda Mohamed: Juggling Cloud, Community & Agentic AI

    · 1 h 05 min · Episode 199

    Some guests make you want to close your laptop and go build something. Linda Mohamed is one of them. In this episode, Romain sits down with Linda — AWS Community Hero, User Group Leader, Chairwoman of the AWS Community…

  28. Evolving Lambda: from ephemeral compute to durable execution

    · 1 h 07 min · Episode 198

    In this episode, Romain sits down with Michael Gasch, Product Manager at AWS for Lambda Durable Functions, to explore one of the most exciting launches in the Serverless space in recent years. Michael shares the full…

  29. Your AI Agent Can't Multitask — Here's How to Fix It

    · 1 h 19 min · Episode 197

    Mike Chambers is back — calling in from the other side of the globe — and he brought a lot to unpack. We pick up threads from our first conversation and follow them into genuinely exciting (and occasionally…

  30. Chris Miller on AI Coding, Multi-Agent Systems, and the Silicon Valley Vibe

    · 1 h 01 min · Episode 196

    Join us for an engaging conversation with Chris Miller, an AWS Hero since 2021 and AI Software Engineer at Workato. Chris shares his journey from accidentally winning a DeepRacer competition to becoming a community…

  31. From MCP to Multi-Agents: The Evolution of Agentic AI (and What's Next)

    · 1 h 08 min · Episode 195

    Mike Chambers reflects on 2025 as 'the year of agents' - though not quite in the way he predicted. From MCP's rocky launch to the rise of AI coding assistants, Mike shares hard-won lessons about what actually worked in…

  32. Spec-Driven Development in Practice: A AWS Hero Journey

    · 59 min · Episode 194

    Christian, AWS Hero and Solution Architect at Bundesliga, shares his journey and hard-won lessons from adopting spec-driven development with AI coding assistants at enterprise scale. Learn when to use specs vs vibe…

  33. Native Speed, Modern Safety: Swift for Backend Development

    · 49 min · Episode 193

    Join us as we explore Swift beyond iOS with Sebastien Stormacq, AWS Developer Advocate and Swift specialist. Discover why Swift is becoming a compelling choice for server-side development, offering native compilation,…

  34. Local Unit Testing for Step Functions

    · 39 min · Episode 192

    Join us as we dive into the new local unit testing capabilities for AWS Step Functions with Jas Narula, Product Manager from the Step Functions team. We explore how developers can now test their workflows locally using…

  35. Building AWS Builder Center: Architecture Lessons from a Large-Scale Community Platform

    · 42 min · Episode 191

    In this episode, we dive deep into AWS Builder Center, the new community platform designed to consolidate all AWS developer resources into one central hub. Roopal Jain, Software Development Engineer on the Builder…

  36. Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications

    · 40 min · Episode 190

    In this episode, we dive deep into Amazon ECS Managed Instances, a new compute option that bridges the gap between EC2 and Fargate for container deployments. Our guest Olly Pomeroy, AWS Container Specialist, explains…

  37. How to not worry about networking on AWS?

    · 49 min · Episode 189

    In this follow-up episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we continue the conversation with Alex Huides, Principal Network Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, focusing on Amazon VPC Lattice. We explore how developers…

  38. Why developers should care about cloud networking

    · 40 min · Episode 188

    In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we dive deep into the world of networking from a developer's perspective. Join host Sebastien Stormacq and guest Alex Huides, Principal Network Specialist Solutions…

  39. AgentCore Identity

    · 40 min · Episode 187

    In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we dive deep into Amazon Bedrock Agent Core Identity with Abram Douglas. Learn how this new service helps developers manage identities and authentication flows for AI…

  40. Building AI Agents with the Strands SDK

    · 44 min · Episode 186

    In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we dive deep into Strands Agents, AWS's open-source framework for building AI agents. Our guest Arron Bailiss, Principal Engineer and Tech Lead for Strands, explains how…

  41. Scaling E-commerce with Serverless: The moonpig.com Story

    · 37 min · Episode 185

    In this episode, we dive deep into Moonpig's migration journey from an on-premise ASP.NET monolithic application to a fully serverless architecture on AWS. Richard Pearson, Head of Engineering, and Alexis Lowe,…

  42. Deploying MCP servers on Lambda

    · 49 min · Episode 184

    Update Oct 25.: After we recorded this episode (July 10th 2025), AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (that went in preview on July 16th, 2025) and generally available since Oct. 13rd, 2025. AgentCore is the…

  43. When AI meets biology: Using LLM to find natural alternatives to antibiotics

    · 38 min · Episode 183

    In this episode, we explore how Phagos, a French biotech startup, combines biology, data science, and cloud computing to combat antimicrobial resistance. Their innovative approach uses bacteriophages - natural…

  44. From Monolith to Microservices: How Zilch Scaled a Modern Payment Platform

    · 45 min · Episode 182

    Join us for an insightful conversation with Mike Davis, Engineering Manager, and Rob Nelson, VP of Engineering at Zilch, a leading UK-based buy now pay later platform. Discover how this cloud fintech scaled from a…

  45. Lambda Runtimes deep dive: Behind the serverless curtain

    · 34 min · Episode 181

    In this episode, we dive deep into AWS Lambda runtime environments with Maxime David, Software Development Engineer in the Lambda runtime team. Discover how AWS manages and updates the foundation of serverless…

  46. Gaming Development Demystified

    · 50 min · Episode 180

    In this episode, we dive deep into the world of game development with our special guest Matheus, a former game developer turned AWS Developer Advocate. We explore why and how to get started in game development,…

  47. The future of fast builds: inside Depot's cloud-native CI/CD platform

    · 40 min · Episode 179

    In this episode, Jacob Gillespie, co-founder and CTO of Depot, reveals how they're changing CI/CD by making builds dramatically faster. Learn how Depot achieves up to 40x speed improvements through innovative use of…

  48. Empowering Women in Tech: A Perspective from India

    · 33 min · Episode 178

    This episode of the AWS Developers Podcast focuses on the empowerment of women in technology, particularly in India. The conversation highlights personal journeys of women in tech, the challenges they face, the…

  49. Vibe Coding — The future of AI-assisted development?

    · 33 min · Episode 177

    Join us for an exciting episode recorded live from AWS Summit India in Bangalore, where we dive deep into 'Vibe Coding' with Amazon Q. Our special guest Omshree, an AWS Community Builder and Cloud Engineer, shares her…

  50. Lambda Extensions - the unsung hero for observability

    · 29 min · Episode 176

    In this episode recorded live from AWS Summit Bangalore, we dive deep into AWS Lambda Extensions and Observability with Jones, a serverless hero and developer advocate at New Relic. Learn about the critical role of…

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